Vice-president tells Munich security conference perpetrators will be held to account over Ukraine war
Photograph: Thomas Kienzle/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Thomas Kienzle/AFP/Getty Imagesformally concluded that Russia had committed crimes against humanity during its nearly year-long invasion of Ukraine, the US vice-president has said.we have examined the evidence, we know the legal standards, and there is no doubt: these are crimes against humanity,” Harris, a former prosecutor, said in prepared remarks delivered in a speech at the Munich security conference on Saturday.
The official determination, which came at the end of a legal and factual analysis led by the US state department, carries no immediate consequences for the war. Harris’s speech came as senior western leaders met in Munich to assess Europe’s worst conflict since the second world war.
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